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Post by glg on Aug 22, 2006 8:45:19 GMT -5
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Post by ThreeStars on Aug 22, 2006 8:56:23 GMT -5
Cool pics...though I very much doubt they are all from Katrina.....look more like Great Plains supercells. And the hurricane season technically began back on 1st June, and we have already had 3 named storms. Yes...quieter than 2005, but 2004 was just the same as this year....Hurricane Charley made landfall in Florida on 13th August. The climatalogical peak of the season I believe is 15th September, so yes, the busiest time is still ahead.
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Post by shimmeroo roo on Aug 22, 2006 9:22:36 GMT -5
I am not familiar with that part of Mississippi, but I'm guessing it's east of Biloxi 'cause those pictures look like they were taken on the dirty side.
We've got everything prepped at my house in FL, and I'm far enough inland that I won't really be bothered by anything except with rain and possible tornados.
Anywho, great pics. Must've used a fast shutterspeed.
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Post by EvilWillow on Aug 22, 2006 11:56:23 GMT -5
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Post by RangerFan09 on Aug 22, 2006 13:18:27 GMT -5
Wow amazing photos...Wether they are or they arn't Hurricane Katrina they are just, wow...
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Post by TyPenn613 on Aug 22, 2006 13:34:45 GMT -5
Not too long ago on Scout, I posted links to many of my pictures from when I went down to the New Orleans area in March. Sadly, six to seven months after the fact, there are still towns that aren't on the map again. Its not so much storm pictures as they are the destruction of the area. If interested, I can post them here.
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Post by raps13 on Aug 22, 2006 15:56:38 GMT -5
I'd be intersted in seeing those pics
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Post by glg on Aug 22, 2006 16:38:07 GMT -5
Nope! Cool pics, but not from Katrina. Aha! Good to know. Cool nonetheless.
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Post by TheDominator on Aug 22, 2006 17:00:34 GMT -5
hmmm, i'm gonna save a few of these.
make nice background pics
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Post by RangerFan09 on Aug 22, 2006 17:10:55 GMT -5
Not too long ago on Scout, I posted links to many of my pictures from when I went down to the New Orleans area in March. Sadly, six to seven months after the fact, there are still towns that aren't on the map again. Its not so much storm pictures as they are the destruction of the area. If interested, I can post them here. Id be interested in seeing those pictures... did u enjoy your trip down to NO, i have always wanted to get down there
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Post by TyPenn613 on Aug 22, 2006 17:13:56 GMT -5
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Post by BroadST on Aug 22, 2006 17:28:54 GMT -5
Geez, those are horrible. Such destruction.
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Post by RangerFan09 on Aug 22, 2006 17:32:57 GMT -5
Wow, thats just wow...
Amazing how one storm can do that much damage...
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Post by TyPenn613 on Aug 22, 2006 17:33:05 GMT -5
Thats four of the 900 plus I have from the week I was there. Honestly, the pictures only tell half of it. If you stand among it all, its a million times more real.
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Post by glg on Aug 22, 2006 17:44:57 GMT -5
Absolute devastation. Never before has Mother Nature reeked so much havoc with one storm on North American soil. Terrible stuff.
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Post by BroadST on Aug 22, 2006 17:56:16 GMT -5
Thats four of the 900 plus I have from the week I was there. Honestly, the pictures only tell half of it. If you stand among it all, its a million times more real. I can't even imagine Ty. It seems so sureal in the picture, I don't even know how I would react seeing it in person.
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Post by TyPenn613 on Aug 22, 2006 17:56:39 GMT -5
You're talking to a double major in Meteorology and Marine Science, so forgive me if I begin to talk anyone's ear off on the topic, its right up there with baseball as my biggest interests.
That said, what you are seeing aren't direct effects of the storms, but rather indirect. The way hurricanes work in the northern hemisphere combined with where the eye of the storm made landfall means New Orleans got off light. The eastern side of a storm will always pack much harder winds. While I would hardly classify a category three storm as insignificant in terms of winds, it would have been much worse as it was the western half of the storm that hit New Orleans. It was also downgraded from a category five to three the day before it hit.
The pictures you see here were the effects of fault governments and engineering where the levees were not reinforced, or better yet, rebuilt. These buildings were wiped off their foundations after the strongest part of the storm passed through, and the wall of water from the collapsing levees is what did this.
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Post by TyPenn613 on Aug 22, 2006 18:03:17 GMT -5
Its hard to explain. I went down with a group of 82 people where we were split into smaller groups. I accidently found myself in charge of 11 others, where out job wasn't to rebuild, but to tear down. The area has so little money and assistance, that its going to be many years before things begin to resemble anything like what they use to.
We were sent to houses that were inspected and declared "sound". That means we had to go through homes that even the people living in didn't have a chance yet, and clear out everything. This ranges from furniture and appliances to pictures and personal belongings. We would try to save what we could, but these houses had 14 to 16 feet of water in them, and they are all one story, there wasn't much.
It should be noted that two weeks after Katrina went through the area, Hurricane Rita (another very strong storm) made landfall at the Texas and Louisiana border, while it missed New Orleans, the broken levees could hold nothing back, and these neighborhoods went back to 7 to 8 feet under water.
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Post by ThreeStars on Aug 22, 2006 18:10:40 GMT -5
You're talking to a double major in Meteorology and Marine Science, so forgive me if I begin to talk anyone's ear off on the topic, its right up there with baseball as my biggest interests. That said, what you are seeing aren't direct effects of the storms, but rather indirect. The way hurricanes work in the northern hemisphere combined with where the eye of the storm made landfall means New Orleans got off light. The eastern side of a storm will always pack much harder winds. While I would hardly classify a category three storm as insignificant in terms of winds, it would have been much worse as it was the western half of the storm that hit New Orleans. It was also downgraded from a category five to three the day before it hit. The pictures you see here were the effects of fault governments and engineering where the levees were not reinforced, or better yet, rebuilt. These buildings were wiped off their foundations after the strongest part of the storm passed through, and the wall of water from the collapsing levees is what did this. Hey....am doing my PhD on hurricanes....a fellow weather geek...nice to know you. One oh my co-grad students was just down there a few months ago too...her pictures show similar devestation. Ther is still so much to slear up....it is shocking.
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Post by TyPenn613 on Aug 22, 2006 18:54:33 GMT -5
Nice to meet you ThreeStars. Where are you studying at?
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Post by ThreeStars on Aug 22, 2006 18:59:30 GMT -5
UAlbany (SUNY)
Where you at? Are ya done and graduated or still knee deep?
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Post by BroadST on Aug 22, 2006 19:05:47 GMT -5
Its still amazing to find out that they knew the levees could be a problem if a hurricane came through and yet they seemed to do nothing about it. A gamble that cost thousand of lives and how many millions of dollars and devisitation.
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Post by TyPenn613 on Aug 22, 2006 20:10:34 GMT -5
I'm at least waist deep. I nearly went to SUNY at Stony Brook, and I'm still toying with transferring there. For the time being though, I'm at Rutgers Univ.
It is amazing, but what makes it even worse is whats happened since. Its obviously public knowledge across the country that the area has problems with the levees.
However, as the money rolled in, the state and local governments are more concerned with making repairs to the Superdome and Convention Center. They claim this is because they need to be used as evacuation zones. Now if they had levees that simply held up, the city would not have flooded like it did, meaning the need for them as evacuation zones wouldn't be there. Nevertheless, people like the mayor and state legislatures are more concerned with the Saints living if they don't renovate their playing field than the actual people in and around the city who are the fans.
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Post by ThreeStars on Aug 22, 2006 20:23:54 GMT -5
I'm at least waist deep. I nearly went to SUNY at Stony Brook, and I'm still toying with transferring there. For the time being though, I'm at Rutgers Univ. Stony Brook isn't bad....and at least tuition is cheaper at a state school!. One of my fellow grad students graduated from Rutgers in '05.
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Post by nesince92 on Aug 22, 2006 20:48:18 GMT -5
ha... SUNY students. I thought about becoming one of them.
too lazy though...
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